WTA Challenger Tour

WTA 125 tournaments are an international series of professional women's tennis tournaments organized by the Women's Tennis Association since 2012.

Sometimes called the WTA Challenger tour (analogous to the men's ATP Challenger Series),^[1][2] it is the second highest level of women's competition, below the top-tier WTA Tour, and above the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour tournaments.

Players who succeed in the WTA 125s earn sufficient ranking points to become eligible for the main draw or qualifying draw entry of WTA Tour tournaments. Titles and losses at a WTA 125 event are separately counted from a player's WTA Tour results and corresponding head-to-head statistics.^{[citation needed]}

Tournament locations

Asia

• China : Anning (2018–2019), Dalian (2015–2017), Nanchang (2014–2015), Nanjing (2013), Ningbo (2013–2014), Suzhou (2013–2014), Zhengzhou (2017–2018)
• India : Pune (2012), Mumbai (2017–2018, 2024)
• South Korea : Seoul (2021)
• Taiwan : Taipei (2012–2019)
• Thailand : Hua Hin (2015, 2017)
• Turkey : Antalya (2024)

Europe

• Andorra : Andorra la Vella (2022–present)
• Croatia : Bol (2016–2019, 2021), Makarska (2022–present)
• Czech Republic : Prague (2020)
• France : Angers (2021–present), Contrexéville (2022–present), Limoges (2014–2019, 2021–present), Paris (2022–present), Rouen (2022–present), Saint-Malo (2021–present)
• Germany : Karlsruhe (2019, 2021–2022)
• Hungary : Budapest (2022)
• Italy : Bari (2022–present), Gaiba (2022–present), Florence (2023–present)
• Poland : Grodzisk Mazowiecki (2023–present)
• Portugal : Oeiras (starting in 2024)
• Romania : Bucharest (2022–present), Iași (2022–present)
• Serbia : Belgrade (2021)
• Slovenia : Ljubljana (2023–present)
• Spain : La Bisbal d'Empordà (2023–present), Marbella (2022), Reus (2023–present), Valencia (2022–present)
• Sweden : Båstad (2019, 2021–present)

North America

• Canada : Vancouver (2022)
• Mexico : Guadalajara (2019), San Luis Potosí (2023–present), Tampico (2022–present)
• United States : Carlsbad (2015), Charleston (2021), Chicago (2018, 2021, 2023), Columbus (2021), Concord (2021–2022), Honolulu (2016–2017), Houston (2018–2019), Indian Wells (2018–2020), Midland (2021–present), New Haven (2019), Newport Beach (2018–2020), San Antonio (2016), Stanford (2023–present)

Oceania

• Australia  : Canberra (2024)

South America

• Argentina : Buenos Aires (2021–present)
• Brazil : Florianópolis (2023–present)
• Chile : Colina (2022–present)
• Colombia : Barranquilla (2023–present), Cali (2013, 2023)
• Uruguay : Montevideo (2021–present)

Historic names

2012–2020
WTA 125K Series

2021–present
WTA 125

Prize money

The tournaments offer total prize money of $125,000–$162,480. An exception was made in case of 2020 Advantage Cars Prague Open which had a prize money of $3,125,000 which was funded by 2020 US Open organizers to make up for the lack of a qualifying draw as many low ranked players, mainly from Europe were unable to travel to New York due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Points distribution

Singles champions

WTA 125K Series

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Newport Beach	Not an event						Collins	Andreescu	Brengle
Cali	ITF Women's Circuit	Arruabarrena Vecino	Not an Event
Indian Wells	Not an event						Errani	Golubic	Begu
San Antonio	Not an event				Doi	Not an event
Guadalajara	Not an event							Kudermetova	Cancelled
Zhengzhou	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit			Q Wang	S Zheng	WTA Premier
Xi'an	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit	Not an event					Cancelled
Anning	Not an event		ITF Women's Circuit				Khromacheva	S Zheng
West Hempstead	Not an event				Cancelled	Not an event
Bol	Not an event				Minella	Krunić	Zidanšek	Zidanšek	Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
Båstad	WTA International							Doi
Karlsruhe	Not an event							Țig
Chicago/New Haven	Not an event						Martić	Blinkova
Nanchang	Not an event		Peng	Janković	WTA International
Prague	Not an event			ITF Women's Circuit				ITF Women's Tour	Kučová
Suzhou	ITF Women's Circuit	Pe'er	Friedsam	ITF Women's Circuit				ITF Women's Tour	Not an event
Portschach	WTA International				Not an event				Cancelled
Dalian	Not an event			S Zheng	Kr Plíšková	Kozlova	Not an event
Ningbo	ITF Women's Circuit	Jovanovski	Linette	Not an event
Warsaw	Not an event								Cancelled
Nanjing	Not an event	Zhang	Not an event	ITF Women's Circuit	Not an event
Pune/Mumbai	Svitolina	Not an Event				Sabalenka	Kumkhum	Not an Event
Hua Hin	Not an event			Shvedova	Cancelled	Bencic	Not an event	WTA International
Taipei	Mladenovic	Van Uytvanck	Diatchenko	Babos	Rodina	Bencic	Kumkhum	Diatchenko	Cancelled
Houston	Not an event						Peng	Flipkens
Limoges	ITF Women's Circuit		Smitková	Garcia	Alexandrova	Niculescu	Alexandrova	Alexandrova
Carlsbad/Honolulu	WTA Premier		Not an event	Wickmayer	Bellis	Zhang	Exhibition event		Not an event

WTA 125

	2021	2022	2023	2024
Canberra	Not an event		ITF Women's Tour	Párrizas Díaz
Da Nang	Not an event
Cali	Not an event		Podoroska	Not an event
Mumbai	Not an event
Marbella	Not an event	Sherif	Not an event
San Luis Potosí	Not an event		Cocciaretto
Saint-Malo	Golubic	Haddad Maia	Stephens
Reus	Not an event		Cîrstea
Florence			Paolini
Paris	Not an event	Liu	Parry
Bol/Makarska	Paolini	Niemeier	Sherif
La Bisbal d'Empordà	ITF Women's Tour		Rus
Valencia	ITF Women's Tour	Q Zheng	Sherif
Gaiba	Not an event	Van Uytvanck	Krueger
Båstad	Párrizas Díaz	Jang	Danilović
Contrexéville	ITF Women's Tour	Errani	Rus
Charleston	Lepchenko	ITF Women's Tour
Belgrade	Schmiedlová	Not an event
Iași	Not an event	Bogdan	Bogdan
Concord	Fręch	Vandeweghe	Not an event
Kozerki	ITF Women's Tour		Yastremska
Barranquilla	Not an event	ITF Women's Tour	Maria
Chicago	Tauson	Not an event	Tomova
Vancouver	Not an event	Grammatikopoulou	ITF Women's Tour
Stanford	Not an event		Y Wang
Karlsruhe	Sherif	Sherif	Not an event
Portorož	WTA 250		Not an event
Columbus	Párrizas Díaz	Not an event
Bari	Not an event	Grabher	Zidanšek
Bucharest		Begu	Sharma
Budapest		Korpatsch	Not an event
Ljubljana	Not an event		Bassols Ribera
Parma	WTA 250		Bogdan
Rouen	Not an event	Zanevska	Golubic
Tampico	Not an event	Cocciaretto	Bektas
Midland	Brengle	McNally	Kalinskaya[a]
Taipei	Cancelled		Not an event
Colina	ITF Women's Tour	Sherif	Bejlek
Florianópolis	Not an event		Tomljanović
Buenos Aires	Bondár	Udvardy	Pigossi
Andorra la Vella	Not an event	Parks	Bassols Ribera
Montevideo	Parry	Shnaider[a]	Zarazúa
Angers	Diatchenko	Parks	Burel
Limoges	Van Uytvanck	Kalinina	Bucșa
Seoul	Zhu	WTA 250

^a Competed under no flag due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Records

Most titles by player

Most finals by player

Youngest champions

Singles

#	Player	Age	Title
1.	CiCi Bellis	17 years, 233 days	Honolulu 2016
2.	Sára Bejlek	17 years, 292 days	Colina 2023
3.	Elina Svitolina	18 years, 60 days	Pune 2012
4.	Bianca Andreescu	18 years, 225 days	Newport Beach 2019
5.	Diana Shnaider[a]	18 years, 239 days	Montevideo 2022
6.	Clara Tauson	18 years, 244 days	Chicago 2021
7.	Ashlyn Krueger	19 years, 49 days	Gaiba 2023
8.	Diane Parry	19 years, 81 days	Montevideo 2021
9.	Kristina Mladenovic	19 years, 174 days	Taipei 2012
10.	Aryna Sabalenka	19 years, 205 days	Mumbai 2017

Doubles

#	Player	Age	Title
1.	Céline Naef	18 years, 160 days	Andorra la Vella 2023
2.	Kateřina Siniaková	18 years, 183 days	Limoges 2014
3.	Chan Hao-ching	19 years, 46 days	Taipei 2012
4.	Diana Shnaider[a]	19 years, 69 days	La Bisbal d'Empordà 2023
5.	Erika Andreeva[a]	19 years, 161 days	Andorra la Vella 2023
6.	Kristina Mladenovic	19 years, 174 days	Taipei 2012
7.	Aryna Sabalenka	19 years, 198 days	Taipei 2017
8.	Veronika Kudermetova	19 years, 210 days	Taipei 2016
9.	Barbora Krejčíková	19 years, 332 days	Limoges 2015
10.	Wang Xinyu	19 years, 364 days	Columbus 2021

Oldest champions

Singles

#	Player	Age	Title
1.	Tatjana Maria	36 years, 12 days	Barranquilla 2023
2.	Varvara Lepchenko	35 years, 72 days	Charleston 2021
	Sara Errani	35 years, 72 days	Contrexéville 2022
4.	Kirsten Flipkens	33 years, 311 days	Houston 2019
5.	Sorana Cîrstea	33 years, 30 days	Reus 2023
6.	Peng Shuai	32 years, 315 days	Houston 2018
7.	Arantxa Rus	32 years, 215 days	Contrexéville 2023
8.	Arantxa Rus	32 years, 180 days	La Bisbal d'Empordà 2023
9.	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	32 years, 175 days	Canberra 2024
10.	Irina-Camelia Begu	32 years, 23 days	Bucharest 2022

Doubles

#	Player	Age	Title
1.	Vera Zvonareva[a]	38 years, 255 days	Paris 2023
2.	Vera Zvonareva	37 years, 103 days	Limoges 2021
3.	Sara Errani	36 years, 210 days	Florianópolis 2023
4.	Renata Voráčová	35 years, 302 days	Karlsruhe 2019
5.	Sara Errani	35 years, 205 days	Buenos Aires 2022
6.	Monica Niculescu	36 years, 76 days	Angers 2023
7.	Bibiane Schoofs	34 years, 359 days	Saint-Malo 2023
8.	Monica Niculescu	34 years, 85 days	Limoges 2021
9.	Alena Fomina-Klotz[a]	34 years, 11 days	Contrexéville 2023
10.	Galina Voskoboeva	33 years, 328 days	Limoges 2018

Others

Highest ranked players to win a singles title

#	Player	Rank	Title
1.	Jelena Janković	25	Nanchang 2015
2.	Caroline Garcia	35	Limoges 2015
3.	Zhang Shuai	36	Honolulu 2017
4.	Mayar Sherif	40	Valencia 2023
5.	Bojana Jovanovski	41	Ningbo 2013
	Irina-Camelia Begu		Bucharest 2022
7.	Ekaterina Alexandrova	42	Limoges 2019
8.	Sorana Cîrstea	44	Reus 2023
9.	Anhelina Kalinina	47	Limoges 2022
	Petra Martić		Chicago 2018
	Alison Van Uytvanck		Gaiba 2022

Highest ranked players to win a doubles title

#	Player	Rank	Title
1.	Storm Hunter	11	Reus 2023
2.	Ellen Perez	16	Reus 2023
3.	Zhang Shuai	25	Angers 2022
4.	Anna Danilina	26	Paris 2023
5.	Chan Hao-ching	27	Taipei 2014
	Anna-Lena Grönefeld		San Antonio 2016
7.	Kristina Mladenovic	28	Taipei 2012
	Asia Muhammad		Midland 2022
9.	Hsieh Su-wei	32	Honolulu 2017
10.	Yang Zhaoxuan	33	Anning 2019

Lowest ranked players to win a singles title

#	Player	Rank	Title
1.	Ajla Tomljanović	543	Florianópolis 2023
2.	Peng Shuai	296	Houston 2018
3.	Valentini Grammatikopoulou	239	Vancouver 2022
4.	Patricia Maria Țig	223	Karlsruhe 2019
5.	Astra Sharma	216	Bucharest 2023
6.	Irina Khromacheva	210	Anning 2018
7.	Sára Bejlek	194	Colina 2023
8.	CoCo Vandeweghe	192	Concord 2022
9.	Mandy Minella	186	Bol 2016
10.	Kristína Kučová	173	Prague 2020

Lowest ranked players to win a doubles title

#	Player	Rank	Title
1.	Varvara Flink[a]	unranked	Concord 2022
2.	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	1014	Bari 2022
3.	Mirjam Björklund	944	Båstad 2021
4.	Wang Xinyu	826	Columbus 2021
5.	Hsieh Shu-ying	809	Honolulu 2017
6.	Jodie Burrage	550	Stanford 2023
7.	Claire Liu	515	Gaiba 2022
8.	Madison Brengle	491	Gaiba 2022
9.	Maegan Manasse	458	Houston 2018
10.	Erika Andreeva[a]	457	Andorra la Vella 2023

Most titles by nation

• updated as of 8 January 2024

See also

• WTA Tour
• ITF Women's World Tennis Tour
• ATP Challenger Tour
• ATP 125 tournaments
• ATP 175 tournaments

References